Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-03-09

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For the SPEcrAToR.l
Latitude, 3S.4O; Longitude, 7S.45; Height above
Sea, $50 feet.
TEMPERATURE.
Maximum. ........-................... IA deg.
Minimum. ......................... II
Average. .......................... 40
Departure from normal .................... 6.7 /"
PRECIPITATION.
No. days in which rain fell ......, 10
Greatest amount at one time...... Ito inches.
Total for the mon 4.72
Departure from normal............ LIS
Quantity of rain and melted snow
per square efoot.-................ 1855 hs.
Quantity of rain and melted snow
per acre..... 534.42 tons.
NO. OF Times dew..-.. far
fog.....................
FROST.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
sleet................,.
VARIATIONS.
No. of days clear during the month.......".H
cloudy without rain or snow....1e
a." oalm... ...........................10
...........................1S
thunder. Observation-Disclosures
lightning. .........................
Warmest day Of the month................. 9Th.
Coolest ...............Tth.
Longest lnterval without rain. n........ days.
sunshine.
Highest wind velocity, 60 miles per hour.
CASUAL PHENOMENA.
l, Colder. cloudy. westerly winds.
2 Rainy. damp, fosgy, muddy.
3, Hazy, fog, cloudy, showers,
1, Fine day, polar bands, threatening
S. Fog, snow, sleet, slush, rain.
6. Cloudy, calm, warmer.
7, Cloudy, dull. high temperature.
g. Fog. hazy, threatening.
0. Fair. high westerly winds
10. Cloudy, southerly winds, shower.
IL, Rushing gales, rsin-storm. rainbow.
II, Colder, snow-fiurries, high winds.
ID. Brilliant, clear. cold.
IA, Cloudy. calm, sleet
Is, Cloudy, warmer.
l6, Changeable, pleasant, westerly winds.
II. Frost, hazy, solar and lunar halos.
IS. Heavy rains, lightning, thunder, fog, rain
bow.
10, Hazy. southerly winds, warmer.
20, Damp. snow slush, fog.
81, Cloudy. dull damp, calm.
| %, Mild, warmer, variable.
23, Snow, sleet. rain, warmer, wild geese dy.
ing South.
| n. H1gn temperature, hazy, polar bands.
25. Hazy, threatening, polar bands.
26. Snow, rain, sleet, mud, wild geese flying
| South.
q, Colder, high westerly winds, squally.
%. Brilliant, clear cold, lunar halo.
Note.-The mean temperature, 1920, is 6o.7'
above the February average for the past seven
years. and the amount of rainfall, 4.72 inches,
is .25 above the average for the same time.
| The highest February mean temperture
400 A. recorded at this station occurred in 1883;
the lowest, 23o 81, in 1885.
| The greatest excess of rainfall, 900 inches
was in 1884; the least. Q. .SS inch, in 1882.
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NEVER SAW ONE OF Hrs CHILDREN
A genuine Yankee having bored a new
conner with every conceivable question
relative to his object in visiting the gold
|, country, his hopes, his means and his pros
poets, at length asked him if he had q
, family. eyes, sir; have wife and six
children, and never saw one of them. -
| After this reply the two sat few minutes
J in silence, then the inquisitive man began
J again-"Was you ever blind, sir '' '.No.
, sir" "Did you marry a widow, sir?"
"No SIR" Another interval of silence
! "Did understand you to say, sir, that
7 you had a wife and six children living in
! New York, and had never seen one of
them ?" eyes, sir, so stated it,
Another and long pause. Then the
Yankee recommended "Hew can it be,
sir, that you never saw one of them ?''
: "Why," was the reply, Zone of them was